Help Shock Therapy (or whatever it's called)

[Hojag]

The last time I visited a doctor, she wrote down all the medications I take per day (and all the previous ones) and asked me questions. She is not my therapist and I'll still attend him to know, but for now, I would like to know if any of you went through a therapy based on electroshock.

The doctor is an experient endocrinologist, so she was *shocked* to see the amount of meds that either lost effect or didn't help me as they should. Seeing how "volatile" and fragile my mental health was and worried with a micro tumour I have inside my brain, she suggested my mother for me to try a "therapy with electrodes".

My grandmother went under something like this to treat her cancer, because there was no chemo at the time... but the electrodes (or shocks) only left her blind and she died not too long later. I admit I'm scared of this and, of course, I need to talk to my therapist first.

But if I may ask, have any of you guys been under a similar situation? What should I expect (or not) from this, in both good and bad ways?

Thank you.

 

[Hvergelmir]

No experience, but I think I have a general idea of what you're talking about.
I think and hope that you're talking about relatively modern therapy. I don't think it's comparable to what your grandmother had, or historic forms of psychiatric shock therapy.

Ask your doctor about details. Then research the specific procedure.

 

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@ bottm of thred

 

[Hojag]

No experience, but I think I have a general idea of what you're talking about.
I think and hope that you're talking about relatively modern therapy. I don't think it's comparable to what your grandmother had, or historic forms of psychiatric shock therapy.

Ask your doctor about details. Then research the specific procedure.

Thank you!
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Different Therapy Methods & Alternatives Explained

"If you want to help someone you need to know something about them" - 'It's A Wonderful Life' Considering therapy but don't know where to start? Hopefully this can be a starting point about what all those different terms mean, and help to pick the right therapist. There are also options further...

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Elctro-cnvulsve therpy

@ bottm of thred

Thank you, really...